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Strawberry Grapefruit Smoothie

A creamy, sweet strawberry smoothie with a light, refreshing hint of grapefruit.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Grapefruit and banana work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 55 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 1
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Add the grapefruit juice, frozen strawberries, frozen banana half, Greek yogurt and sugar to a blender.

  2. Blend on high until completely smooth, about 45 seconds, stopping to scrape down the sides once if needed.

  3. Taste the smoothie and blend in more sugar, a little at a time, if you want it sweeter.

  4. Pour into a glass and serve right away while it is cold and thick.

By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Grapefruit + bananatop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Banana + yogurttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together508 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Banana + sugartop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together3,102 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  4. Yogurt + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,614 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Grapefruit + yogurttop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (grapefruit, yogurt, sugar):

  1. Orangebetter flavor fit
  2. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  3. Pineapplebetter flavor fit
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against grapefruit, yogurt, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).